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  • 2005
  • Arab Film Distribution
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2005
  • Arab Film Distribution
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary This documentary provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Media Education Foundation)

Directed By: Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff

Written By: Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff

  • 2005
  • Arab Film Distribution
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2005
  • Arab Film Distribution
  • 1 h 20 m

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

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Summary This documentary provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Media Education Foundation)

Directed By: Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff

Written By: Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Thought-provoking.
By Jonathan Curiel FULL REVIEW
75
Showing the movie would be a great way to open a debate. I would love to hear its charges answered as clearly as they're stated.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
60
The subject can sharply divide even the most liberal-minded critics, but it's no secret on which side of the debate filmmakers Bathsheba Ratzkoff and Sut Jhally find themselves.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
60
The result may be better suited for classroom viewing than for theatrical exhibition, but that's a tribute to the movie's instructive value.
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Pedantic, humorless and one-sided -- qualities that won't encourage exposure beyond the activist left.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
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Often, the movie feels like sitting through a college lecture class.
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50
The main problem with The Promised Land is that Jhally and Ratzkoff are eager to foster dissent, but not to invite it into their own movie. Their talking heads sound rehearsed and repetitive, and the righteous anger dissipates without a contrary opinion to provide a ceiling.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Media Education Foundation
Release Date Jan 28, 2005
Duration 1 h 20 m
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